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Carleton S. Coon
● Racial Adaptations (1982)
Subspecies vs. race vs. ecotype
Species Concepts
● Ernst Mayr
● Biological Species Concept
● Allopatric Speciation
Race
● Geographic race = a recognizably different geographic population or set of populations of
a species
● Race = different populations of a species that differ genetically from each other
● Polytypic – we also looked at baboons that have polytypic species;7 not true biological
species b/c they still reproduce at the borders
○ Subspecies/race in biology – incipient species on their way to building up
mutations from being one species to being different species Ethnicity
● A group of persons who share the same language and customs and who identify with
certain recent origins
● Race ≠ Ethnic group
US Census
● Changes in questions asked over time from 1960-
2010
Does “race” = “ethnic group”?
● Race versus ethnicity some anecdotes:
○ Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemmings
■ Sally Hemmings was ¾ white;7 but was TJ’s slave;7 had 4 children
■ 3 brothers in DuLac, LA – brothers could pass as white – this is how
people got identified;7 up until 1950, the Huma Indians were considered
“negro” but after 1950, recognized as “Native Americans”;7 3 brothers born
in different years, different places – one “black,” one “Native American”,
one “white”
Barack Obama
● Counts as African-
Ame...
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